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Cornelia's Blog – September 2009 Archive (4)

NYT: The Next Cultural War

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/opinion/29brooks.html

"If there is to be a movement to restore economic values, it will have to cut across the current taxonomies. Its goal will be to make the U.S. again a producer economy, not a consumer economy. It will champion a return to financial self-restraint, large and small."

Added by Cornelia on September 29, 2009 at 11:23am — 2 Comments

Park(ing) Day is today!

Park(ing) Day is a one-day, global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The Project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in an area of San Francisco that is… Continue

Added by Cornelia on September 18, 2009 at 11:14am — No Comments

Grants for converting Brownfields into urban farms - deadline for applications is 10/17

Go to: www.epa.gov/brownfields and check out the grants and funding section of the website.

EPA's Brownfields Program provides direct funding for brownfields assessment, cleanup, revolving loans, and environmental job training. To facilitate the leveraging of public resources, EPA's Brownfields Program collaborates with other EPA programs, other federal partners, and state… Continue

Added by Cornelia on September 10, 2009 at 4:02pm — No Comments